Our school and our educational system thrives on rituals. One of these rites is the thesis . Futility of this work speak willingly leave Giorgio Manganelli, who was professor and professor (as well as avant-garde writer) and in one shot (one of his deadly italics) pulverized the thesis and ridiculed on acutely lucky book by Umberto Eco " How a thesis."
Here Manganelli, 1977.
Umberto Eco wrote a book highly enjoyable, fun, polished, a bit 'management, by young and aggressive manager, who likes doing things well. The book teaches how to do a thesis, and is so captivating, from throat to be graduating from the beginning. In my opinion, must be resisted. Eco has a way of whispering, telling, inventing the streets, the virtuous plots that allow you to write a thesis, to deny him play, it takes arrogance. If I had met a book so that, in my youth, I learned to do things that I'll ever do. For example, the notes in the footer. Too late: unable to attend methodically homegrown libraries, fill cards, catalog of arguments, write notes, I had to bring me to the genius. Miserable end, who was born to his studies. But, in this way, I have exempted from all that I can not do, that is, in fact, everything.
However, the reason why we must resist, with the same firmness with which to repel the leaflets titled "A Better World", that is, in my opinion, it is time not to most thesis, to expel this ceremony from what remains of our faculty. It's true: I hate thesis, I regret the hours I spent in reading them, follow them, to make report ; not believe that, in the faculty where I worked, no one ever learned anything in my thesis, except roads and humiliation dell'astuzia are endless. [...] The general thesis, however, is in precipitous decline, as it is in decline the exam. many "doctors" have a degree, graduating with a thesis buy ready-made, made on commission, as the wife-murder, with a thesis recycled? And the argument "build" made with glue and photocopying, will then be an extraordinary intellectual experience? I do not think that this shows that undergraduates tend to be criminals or fools: no need to create a university police, or open an undergraduate psychiatry. I believe it is now a widespread belief that the experience of writing a thesis, to put together a search of the second, third hand, is entirely peripheral, an oddity that must hairdressers, because at some point the university must also come out.
Paper technical and managerial, therefore, to Eco. Nothing more. A text that can be useful, but much more is useful to all of us to the recommendation of Manganelli: necessary to eliminate this unnecessary practice from our courses of study. Young people are shortcuts to the dissertation (thesis on commission), but not because they are criminals, but because they understood that need to be able to circumvent the system in some way and be able to put my feet out of the university. The same can be said for boys who find loopholes to get out of secondary schools. Shortcuts are not always the best. Often you can find ways out of the most interesting (and fun). Well, perhaps the teachers could teach the kids to Manganelli the way out in the best way to college and university. Still waiting something will change eventually. And radically.
Antonio Saccoccio
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